About the team:

Web Summit Engineering consists of several cross-functional teams, working on tools and systems that help our attendees maximise their conference experience. 

We’re looking for a Senior Backend Engineer to influence and motivate our high-performing applications team, responsible for the development of core products that are key to the attendee experience. 

What you’ll achieve at Web Summit:

• You’ll influence the architecture and development direction of the Applications/Product teams to ensure quality code is written and excellent products are built.
• You’ll work across the software stack to deliver high-quality, maintainable and scalable code that can power the best conferences in the world.
• You’ll share knowledge with other team members via mentoring, code reviews, technical talks, or consulting on projects.
• You’ll break down complex projects into smaller problems and work with others to ensure that great products get delivered as a result.
• You'll get insight into senior internal stakeholders, and have an active input into how Web Summit grows globally from a technology angle.

Skills and abilities we’re looking for:

• Ability to understand large, complex distributed systems with many moving, interrelated parts.
• 5+ years of commercial experience in an OOP language. We use a services architecture, with existing RESTful Apis in Ruby, but also Java, Kotlin, and Python, to name a few.
• Linux and Postgres experience ideal.
• Strong SDLC principles, TDD and CI/CD understanding.
• Good understanding of AWS.
• DevOps experience is a big plus.
• Comfortable working in Scrum/Kanban environment, with Git Pull/code reviews.

Perks and Benefits:

• Hybrid working model benefit open to all employees.
• Fully subsidised healthcare, dental, employee assistance programme(EAP) and more.
• A dedicated in house L&D department, with access to workshops, online learning and resources to help you excel in your career development.
• Company laptop, generous annual leave and flexible working arrangements.
• Our very own “Tramway team” who drive community and morale boosting events for employees to participate in.
• Annual company get togethers, company charity days and monthly wellbeing talks.